Short-Term Market Risks Implied by Weekly Options

Torben Andersen, Nicola Fusari () and Viktor Todorov ()
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Nicola Fusari: The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, Postal: The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
Viktor Todorov: Northwestern University, Postal: Department of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

CREATES Research Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Abstract: We study short-term market risks implied by weekly S&P 500 index options. The introduction of weekly options has dramatically shifted the maturity profile of traded options over the last five years, with a substantial proportion now having expiry within one week. Such short-dated options provide a direct way to study volatility and jump risks. Unlike longer-dated options, they are largely insensitive to the risk of intertemporal shifts in the economic environment. Adopting a novel semi-nonparametric approach, we uncover variation in the negative jump tail risk which is not spanned by market volatility and helps predict future equity returns. Incidents of tail shape shifts coincide with mispricing of standard parametric models for longer-dated options. As such, our approach allows for easy identification of periods of heightened concerns about negative tail events that are not always "signaled" by the level of market volatility and elude standard asset pricing models.

Keywords: Options; Jumps; Stochastic Volatility; Extreme Events; Time-Varying Tail Risk; Return Predictability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 C52 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59
Date: 2018-01-15
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